Mixing things up this performance review season? You’re not alone. Amazon’s corporate employees were asked, as part of their annual review, to demonstrate the value they bring to the organization by detailing three to five accomplishments from the past year, Business Insider reported. According to the internal guidelines seen by Business Insider, “Accomplishments are specific projects, goals, initiatives, or process improvements that show the impact of your work. Consider situations where you took risks or innovated, even if it didn’t lead to the results you hoped for.” This marks a shift from previous review cycles, during which employees were asked to respond to “broader questions” about their goals, interests, and achievements. (Amazon declined HR Brew’s request for comment.) “It makes sense to have people identify things that, ‘I have done that equaled a result,’ and I think that the intent behind it is to allow people to feel like they have some like agency or responsibility for making that happen for themselves,” Wendy Lee Berger, global lead for client service and operations at leadership development and change management consultancy Impact, told HR Brew. But there needs to be “balance,” she added, between clear job expectations and accomplishments. “If you start with just, ‘these are the metrics I want from you…and this is the only thing,’ that’s heavy handed,” she said. For more on the pros and cons of this performance management tactic, keep reading here.—MC | 
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